The Oil Painter's Color Handbook: A Contemporary Guide to Color Mixing, Pigments, Palettes, and Composition

Very useful guide to a successful painting.

Do not buy another book on acrylic painting, this has everything you need to learn colour theory. I was mortified whilst reading a library book copy of Lorena Kloosterboer’s acrylic painting guide and also Gill Barron’s Acrylic Secrets book. Lorena’s book of 2015 is around $300 at time of writing and it’s a complete waste of money and here’s why: Both Barron and Kloosterboer’s books were published by Quarto publishing. I turned to the section on canvas preparation in both of these library books and found replicas of exactly the same photos in Kloosterboer’s 2015 book of a man’s hands preparing a canvas!! It is the same images from Barrons book of 2009. Same photos of paper types in both books too. Luckily I bought this Todd Casey book for $50 and not Kloosterboer’s for $300-$400. So glad I did. This book by Todd Casey is a well written book with thankfully a completely different publisher than Barron & Kloosterboer’s books. Library books saved the day, I’m glad I borrowed the Gill Barron and Lorena Kloosterboer’s books first to reveal a very hairy pair of men’s arms in the canvas stretching section in both books. See photos of Casey’s book for more.

Love the book content but delivery comes without any form of protective bubble wrap, 2-3 edges are dented and the book doesn't comes with any wrapper and seems like a rejected or return copy. In short no effort is taken to protect the item, hopeless!!!

Very good color book, explains when and how to mix oilcolor for a specific result, well explained and some nice pictures

This was a great book to learn more about mixing color for painting. Nice hard cover book with quality pages. I read through the book in less than a week cause I didn't want to put it down. The first few chapters were a bit more about color history and some things that I already knew, but once you get to chapter 5, it gets really good and had information I haven't seen presented anywhere else about color mixing. I'm not sure if this author has any other books out there, but would buy more if he did. There are a lot of nice photos throughout the book and great color wheels, especially helpful if you use Gamblin Oil paints since some of the detailed color wheels plot the gamblin pigments on the wheel and shows where they are in relation to all other colors in the paint line. I am probably going to go back through the book now that I finished it and write down all the highlights of great information into a notebook to keep near my easel.!

This is a true 'handbook' and a valuable resource for an aspiring picture maker. It touches on a remarkably wide range of fundamentals, & is filled with practical, clear, concise information, an array of colourful examples, and nuanced insights into a variety of approaches. Highly recommended!